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THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>JOSHUA</span>
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CHAPTER 23
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Joshua exhorts Israel to be courageous; keep the commandments; love the Lord; and neither marry among nor cleave unto remnants of Canaanites who remain in land—When Israel serves other gods, they shall be cursed and dispossessed.
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And</span> it came to pass a long time after that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had given <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 22: 4.">rest</a> unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/23/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 13: 1.">Joshua</a> waxed old <i>and</i> stricken in age.
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And Joshua called for all Israel, <i>and</i> for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old <i>and</i> stricken in age:
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And ye have seen all that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God <i>is</i> he that hath fought for you.
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Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 15: 12.">great</a> sea westward.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 98: 37 (33-38).">expel</a> them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God hath promised unto you.
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Be ye therefore very <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Courage.">courageous</a> to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom <i>to</i> the right hand or <i>to</i> the left;
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That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 23: 13.">gods</a>, nor cause to swear <i>by them,</i> neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
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But <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 18: 6; Jacob 6: 5; Hel. 4: 25; D&C 11: 19.">cleave</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, as ye have done unto this day.
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For the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but <i>as for</i> you, no man hath been able to <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 21: 44.">stand</a> before you unto this day.
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One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, he <i>it is</i> that <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 20: 4.">fighteth</a> for you, as he hath <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/23/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Promises.">promised</a> you.
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Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God.
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Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, <i>even</i> these that remain among you, and shall make <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Interfaith.">marriages</a> with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
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Know for a certainty that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God will no more drive out <i>any of</i> these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 1: 27 (27-36).">scourges</a> in your sides, and <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/23/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 33: 55; Ezek. 28: 24; 1 Ne. 2: 24; 3 Ne. 20: 28 (27-28).">thorns</a> in your eyes, until ye <sup>c</sup><a href="josh/23/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Ne. 2: 21 (20-21).">perish</a> from off this good land which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God hath given you.
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And, behold, this day I <i>am</i> going the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/14a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Kgs. 2: 2; 2 Ne. 1: 14; TG Death.">way</a> of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/23/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 82: 10.">good</a> things which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, <i>and</i> not one thing hath failed thereof.
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Therefore it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> as all good things are come upon you, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 21: 45.">promised</a> you; so shall the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God hath given you.
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When ye have <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/23/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 17: 2; D&C 1: 15; D&C 3: 6 (6-8); D&C 54: 4 (3-6); D&C 104: 52.">transgressed</a> the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/23/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 14: 15.">good</a> land which he hath given unto you.
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